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Advocacy to Reduce Malnutrition in Uganda: Some Lessons for Sub-Saharan Africa

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There has been increasing recognition in Sub-Saharan Africa over the past decade of the significance of malnutrition as a brake on both human and economic development and a burden in the lives of many African households. Governments are taking measures to reduce the prevalence of malnutrition among...

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Main Author: Namugumya, Brenda Shenute
Format: Book Chapter
Language:Inglés
Published: International Food Policy Research Institute 2012
Subjects:
food supply
nutrition policies
agriculture
public health
nutrition
health
Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/10568/153991
Summary:There has been increasing recognition in Sub-Saharan Africa over the past decade of the significance of malnutrition as a brake on both human and economic development and a burden in the lives of many African households. Governments are taking measures to reduce the prevalence of malnutrition among their citizens, but the problem is serious: 57 million African children under five years of age suffer from chronic malnutrition, and 6 million of them are acutely malnourished (Black et al. 2008). More broadly, micronutrient deficiencies remain persistently high.

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